#a lot of xever stuff bc I love him

[undercoverbisexualfrog]

Foot Clan Headcanons

Being cold blooded xever can’t take the cold very well, Baxter also prefers not to go out so the two of them hang out a lot in winter

Xever developed cleithrophobia (fear of being trapped) after going to prison, it only worsened after being put in the tank after first being mutated. Anton once locked him in a storage closet as a joke and xever had a panic attack. Chris freed him and beat the living shit out of Anton.

TC is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, has a pin of the flag on their scarf.

Anton and Xever are trans besties. They like listening to music together. They have trans pins bc I said so.

There’s no such thing as a member of the Foot who’s straight and doesn’t need therapy.

TC treats the others as their kids.

Baxter is autistic and has a rainbow infinity pin on his sweater.

Xever is lactose intolerant, Chris has a peanut allergy, Ivan can’t have gluten

Baxter’s experiments get the others into weird situations and a shit load of side effects that usually takes a few days to make a cure for. TC scolds him right after.

They watch Disney and marvel movies together and steal Chris’ Disney plus acc.

Xever uses eyeshadow and nail polish a lot.

Ivan’s pan, he didn’t realise until he was mutated.

Anton and Chris hate each other for no reason.

Ivan gets Anton flowers a lot.

Xever sometimes forgets English words.

Chris and Ivan can’t cook for shit. They both have a history of burning down the kitchen.

They have family game nights but they get violent really quickly, usually starts with someone cheating before they all go apeshit.

Xever is a cat person, Chris is a dog person. They constantly fight.

Tiger Claw is trying to book them all in for therapy.

Baxter is Australian (@dnpanimationstudioclone came up with it).

Xever is dyslexic and is currently learning how to read.

‘Who the fuck wants to sleep when you have FUCKING ADVENTURE TIME’

Shared Netflix account

Anton and Baxter have a bet about tc having a thing for shredder

Xever doesn’t eat a lot, Chris eats too much

TC made a bad decision and let their kids play Mario Kart together

Somehow even remotely friendly activities that are planned always end up in literal flames.

Chris snores. He snores really fucking loud and no one can sleep through him. Xever sleeps with him and is really fucking done with it.

They watch stranger things together and cry a lot

Ivan and Anton watch baking shows together

Baxter plays a lot of indie horror games and talks non stop about the lore.

When among us was a thing Bax convinced the others to join him. Who knew six mutated dumbasses with access to highly illegal weapons playing a game that includes killing each other, lying about it and voting to throw each other into space could go to shit so quickly.

Chris needs to get out more. He doesn’t understand anything about other cultures and it’s bad.

Ivan’s always wished he could go to space.

Xever’s the youngest in the team and everyone constantly gives him shit about it.

TC is always trying to comfort the chaotic zoo they call their children when something happens.

Chris can’t handle spicy stuff for shit and is constantly teased for it.

Whenever they have the chance they sleep in the same room. They do makeovers and ghost games and shit like that.

Xever adopted a bunch of mutant kids. In other words he adopted the entire fucking jungle.

They all throw insults at each other and threaten to beat up/kill one another but at the end of the day they’re basically a family. A very, very, murderous and dysfunctional family, but still a family.

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i’m having more of my tmnt au/2012 rewrite-ish thing so i’m gonna post this doodle of Karai and Leonardo bc it also summarizes one problem i have with 2012 and then the rest of my thoughts will be under keep reading

if you can’t read my handwriting/the quality of the phone picture is too bad: Karai: You ever think about how we’re in this mess just because our dads were fighting over a girl? Leonardo: ...... Y. Yeah. All the time.

yeah so obviously i don’t really like the reason for The central conflict of the series and shredder’s motivation to begin with, especially when they put in a much better reason in his backstory but still focused on “gorl didn’t like me back :(”

like really this guy devotes his life to revenge, kidnaps his niece, tries to murder several children, allies himself with colonizing aliens, and literally dooms the earth to destruction all because... he’s an incel. like i do like how crazy devoted he is to his revenge bc i love that stuff but with this it’s just kind of funny when it’s not supposed to be. so! i would change his motivation to what it should have been and is actually in the show, namely: the whole thing about the Hamato Clan taking him in as a baby after they launched a devastating assault on a Foot Clan village, where they found him.

they do add in a little bit of it but. it should’ve been his main motivation, not just an extra thing! it could’ve even made him something of a sympathetic villain! like how i would’ve done it, he finds out about his origins as being part of the Foot Clan and the fate of his home village, and is enraged that he’s been lied to his whole life. he questions the honor of the Hamato Clan since they clearly attacked civilians - this was a village, and there were clearly kids there, he wonders if he really was the only child there and how many were not given the same mercy he did - and his family were apparently killed in the attack. so he confronts his brother yoshi about it (not sure if i’d have yoshi know about it or not but his reaction remains the same). saki expresses his desire to have revenge, tear the Hamato Clan down since he doesn’t believe that it deserves to continue to exist, but that doesn’t mean yoshi has to die too, and asks yoshi to join him. of course, since saki wants to kill yoshi’s dad as revenge, yoshi refuses, the two fight, tang shen jumps between, house burns down, big ol’ domino brick effect.

i think he still has feelings for tang shen and while he’s jealous he leaves it be and remains best friends with tang shen, and her death at his hand drives him further off the edge. he takes in miwa/karai partially as a way to make it up to tang shen, though he knows it’s not enough. oh and also as a dramatic irony/more revenge against the Hamato Clan since that’s exactly what they did to him.

while he is entirely dedicated to eradicating the Hamato Clan he gets more and more obsessed with revenge as the story goes on. like i’m thinking of having leo and karai suggest a truce between the Foot and the turtles with the Kraang threat afoot and shredder actually ends up accepting bc he agrees they can’t let the Kraang win. maybe more bc he genuinely cares abt karai in his own way and wants there to be a world for her to grow up in (even though at this point she’s been trained as an assassin for her entire childhood but. well. he’s still a villain yanno. “this is how my adoptive parents treated me when i was growing up, i don’t see what the problem is.” “your parents who you hate?” “yeah. what of it.”). but then, later on, he would become entirely obsessed with revenge and not care about anything else that happens, probably after killing splinter and finding it brought him no peace or satisfaction

seriously what’s up with 2012 allying with the Kraang. how do you see that working out for you sir. sure he was expecting a betrayal but. still.

of course he takes opportunity of the truce to steal mutagen and Kraang tech while they can and makes sure to make use of the fact that the turtles can’t interfere in his business to make more weapon deals and gain more territory.

... hmm... i could... have tang shen live... potentially surviving the wound... and she and yoshi both believe that miwa perished in the fire, and they either get divorced or they both move to usa together and then yoshi gets mutated and tang shen is left alone, not knowing that her husband turned into a giant rat... i mean that’s just a potential thing. it sounds a little bit melodramatic and contrived but i think tang shen should get to survive sometimes and making splinter Epic Divorce Man would be funny. i dunno just a thought!

while we’re on the topic of Foot Clan stuff i might as well talk a little about other Foot Clan goons

bebop and rocksteady join way earlier. i care them ok. not sure if they’d still be anton zeck and steranko... idw and bay movies are peak bopsteady ok, and i like them being friends from the start! also for design changes i just don’t agree with bebop being skinny. he’s fat :)

Xever doesn’t get mutated, i like his human design more and there are, what, three major black characters in 2012 and they’re all villains and all get mutated? let xever be human!! he’d also be a bit more of a major and respected villain, a very Neutral Evil type, and makes a point to show he’s out for himself and for his own survival. if possible he’ll try to talk his way out of situations when he can and speaks in support of the truce i mentioned earlier because he’d prefer it if the earth was still inhabitable. karai proclaims that he is her favorite among her dad’s cringe henchmen but the only thing they bond over is their mutual disdain of bradford. he just thinks karai is kind of a brat, if a very skilled and dangerous brat.

while bradford/rahzar is a fairly formidable threat, there would be more emphasis on how pathetic he is. he’s chuck norris so he deserves it. also he’s like a 50 year old guy who acts so entirely devoted to shredder who’s. what. 39 years old? 40? he deserves to be dragged more

i’m thinking mr baxter stockman wouldn’t be mutated either, i like his human design a lot too. he would also be much less of a loser in this rewrite since bradford would take that role. instead, he’s just... an absurdly normal genius scientist/engineering guy who happens to be part of a really evil crime organization full of evil ninjas. he’s polite and eccentric, happy to have someone who finally funds his many inventions and experiments, even if that someone happens to be someone literally called The Shredder. however, while he is a nice man, he is rather impatient when people rush him with inventions. whenever shredder tries his usual “if you fail there will be consequences” it just doesn’t work bc baxter points out that failure is part of the process and that shredder absolutely needs him to make the inventions shredder wants.

karai is weirded out by baxter the most bc he just seems so normal

later on when karai goes double-agent to try and take the Foot Clan down from the inside: i trust baxter the least leo: it’s the sweater isn’t it karai: it’s just so pink, i can’t stop looking at it whenever we’re having an Evil Ninja Crime Organization meeting! do you know the tonal dissonance of seeing him next to The Shredder? and listening to shredder speak in grunts and growls while baxter just keeps a chipper tone?? i don’t think i’ve ever used the word chipper to describe someone before but with him, it’s the only word i can think of!!! leo: he is disarmingly pleasant. karai: right!!! he looks more like someone’s wacky dad!! the other day he literally told me a dad joke. i felt like i was light-headed

i don’t think i’d change tiger claw very much, if at all. maybe make him a little less invincible at times, and a little more regretful of the outcome with alopex.

i have more thoughts but this is. already several walls of text so i’ll end this nonsense post here